Your Local Spots

02-03-2012, 09:33 AM

Thought it might be fun to have a thread where you can post your local spot's webcam. Maybe give everyone a heads up when the waves are good so others can see what a decent day is for your spot.
Here's a local cam for my main beach.http://www.tiger24.com/index.php/por...n-surf-webcam/
Small today, but nice and clean. Would be fun on the Potato!

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The boogey boarders love it... On a stand up it's bloody hard to put yourself in the spot and get into it. There's only a few guys who really try and even fewer that can pull it off. It's not the most predictable wave, and it jacks up and throws over so quick you often end up air dropping into it, so if you put yourself deep you can easily end up way too deep or freefalling to the flats and getting the lip straight on your head. It'd be a real fun wave to do some little whip-ins with a ski and set up for the barrel.
I'm sure if you put a bunch of pro's on it they'd go nuts paddling, but as I said I've only see a couple of locals guys really get in behind the peak and make it with any consistency.
To be honest that pic doesn't tell the whole story. Here's a better onen681650777_2225969_2510130.jpg
Here it is on a lower tide262228_126507024102267_100002289107052_218284_6858867_n.jpg

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I always loved the Wall (or Fox Point). Not quite a flooded with the clueless beginner as Narragansett and not quite as localized as Point Judith - although Judith is a really nice wave. I used to surf on the south side of the lighthouse (the left), which we dubbed "Excalibur" because you had to avoid this one section that had all this rebar sticking out of huge chunks of concrete. The river mouth at Ogunquit can get just SICK.

I live in Narragansett for almost 2 years while my wife went to grad school at URI and the left at Pt. J was one of my favorite waves being goofy. Seriously days in the summer where the right handers would be mobbed and my buddy and I would surf South Side with no 2 other people.

Ireland has become some exotic holiday destination for touring types of surfers and with the huge growth in surfing our local known spots are all busy, but there are loads of less well known places harder to get to which are still empty. I think the fact it rain 263 days a year will help maintain this isolation of a desolate place. 3 degrees with a stiff northwesterly this morning, planning a sheltered spot for the afternoons surf, Dom or SP is looking strong potentially.